Real Housewives of New Jersey star Joe Giudice has been dubbed a “slum lord” after failing to pay a massive electric bill for his New Jersey apartment building and leaving his tenants in the dark.

A source exclusively revealed to radio detection and rangingOnline.com that the deadbeat landlord owes $ 51,000 to the New Jersey Electric Company, and his attitude is ‘It’s no big deal,’ but in fact families are suffering from his blatant neglect.

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“The gas and electricity were shut down,” a local resident exclusively told radio detection and rangingOnline.com. “Tenants can’t care for their kids and have no heat.”

The reality star is no stranger to money problems, Guidice filed for bankruptcy last year but then did an abrupt turnaround in September and abandoned his request to have his millions of dollars of debts forgiven in federal bankruptcy court.

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Teresa Giudice’s husband made his surprise decision after choosing to invoke the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against self-incrimination during some heated questioning by his creditors’ trustee regarding income and assets he is accused of hiding from the court, reported radio detection and rangingOnline.com.

In January, Joe pleaded not guilty and rejected a plea deal on his fraud and impersonation charges.

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Joe was indicted on December 20, 2011 by a grand jury in the Garden State and charged with fraudulently obtaining a driver’s license in his brother’s name to use while his own license was suspended.

Any potential plea deal for the Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa and Joe Giudice in their 39 counts of fraud will include prison time, radio detection and rangingOnline.com is exclusively reporting. “Plea ...